Democrats on a House committee probing allegations of political interference at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Trump administration on Monday announced they were broadening their investigation, citing newly obtained documents. As their probe expands, Democrats on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis have requested documents and transcribed interviews from eight former and current CDC and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials and employees, as well as three former Trump appointees, according to a press release. The new requests come amid the release of an updated analysis (pdf) by Select Subcommittee staff that purportedly documents “a total of 88 separate incidents of the Trump Administration’s political interference in the coronavirus response,” including such allegations as lying to the public, sidelining experts, and altering scientific reports. The analysis claims that the incidents “degraded every major facet of the prior Administration’s public health response,” including …